How to deposit your accepted paper in ORA through Symplectic

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1 How to deposit your accepted paper in ORA through Symplectic Act on Acceptance: when you ve had a journal article or conference paper accepted for publication, deposit the accepted manuscript 1 into ORA within 3 months of acceptance. This will enable you to meet HEFCE s open access requirements for the next REF, and boost the visibility of your research. 1. Go to and Log in to Symplectic (on right hand side) with your Single Sign-On. 2. This takes you to the Welcome page: click to open Deposit your work. What you need before starting: 1. Author Accepted Manuscript (final peerreviewed manuscript, with all revisions - not the proofs or publisher pdf). 2. Date of acceptance. 3. Click on the publication type that you are depositing, Conference or Journal article. 4. On the next screen, enter the title of the article and click Search. If there is already a record Claim it, then go to Step 11 (page 4) to make the deposit. If it doesn t appear in the results, scroll down to the bottom of the screen and Go to next step. (If it does appear, Claim the record and go to Step 12 don t create a duplicate record.) V3.6 (November 2017) 1

2 5. If there is no existing record you need to create one. On the Add Journal Article screen, please fill in the information you have at hand (* fields are the minimum required). If you tick the Author box, your name automatically appears in the Authors field below. Article title is remembered from the previous step. Please add Oxford co-authors, to avoid duplication of effort. Date of Acceptance: when article was firmly accepted (all peer-review changes have been made and it is ready for typesetting & publication). 6. Please enter the full Journal title. The other boxes are optional, but it s helpful to complete them. Then click Save. Journal title helps identify your article and can later aid links to published version and updating of records. (For conference papers the conference name is required.) Unlikely to have DOI on acceptance, but rapid publications may get one within 3 months of acceptance. Optional fields. The more additional information you can provide, the more useful it will be, the better your record will look and it may save you being contacted by the ORA team at a later date. V3.6 (November 2017) 2

3 7. You will then be taken to the Link Funding screen to link the publication to a grant. You will see your grants listed. The list can be filtered by name. To link your publication to one or more of the listed grants, click on the blue Link buttons and then on the blue Done button which will appear. Otherwise you can click Not Externally Funded or Grant Not Listed. 8. The next step is to upload your AAM file (Author Accepted Manuscript). Please upload the Author Accepted Manuscript (the final accepted version ready for publisher typesetting). Browse for the file and click Upload. 9. If you have additional files, please add them using +Upload files. For example, supplementary pages, diagrams or other additional supporting materials. Finally, click Deposit my publication. V3.6 (November 2017) 3

4 Journal embargo period: fill in if known (but ORA staff will check this anyway). Press embargo: If you know there is a press release or metadata embargo on your article, add a note in the Comments box. Reuse permissions: leave blank and if necessary the ORA team will apply a relevant licence. ORA deposit licence: a standard requirement, simply permitting ORA to hold & display your article. 10. When you ve clicked on Deposit my publication you get a confirmation message: FINALLY: click Deposit my publication to complete the process. Clicking here shows the record you created. NB. you cannot view the file you deposited as it goes to ORA and does not remain in Symplectic. 11. That s it. Deposit complete. You can log out of Symplectic. Please wait for ORA to contact you. See step 15. Next Stop ORA (page 5). Depositing a previously claimed publication 12. If you have claimed a publication in Step 4 you will need to create a manual record to add the Date of Acceptance (important!) and deposit your article. V3.6 (November 2017) 4

5 13. Find your publication from the Welcome page by clicking Publications from the left hand menu bar, then the Mine tab. Find the publication and click on the publication title. Click on title to go to publication record. 14. If the AAM has not already been deposited, then in the Data Sources section click on Add Manual Record. Then go back to Step 5 to complete the record and upload the file. 15. Next stop: ORA The ORA Team receive the file and bibliographic details and: Create an ORA record (with additional bibliographic information as available) Check copyright & embargo Send the depositor a confirmation with link to ORA record Make full-text freely available in ORA at end of embargo period. V3.6 (November 2017) 5

6 For any problems with Symplectic Elements, please contact For any queries about ORA, please For other Open Access queries including Article Processing Charges (APCs) please or visit our website 1 Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM), also known as the final peer reviewed version or final author version. Includes changes arising from peer-review, but before publisher type-setting and layout. V3.6 (November 2017) 6